hkjn / cclient

Repo cclient is a server-side chromium setup.

cclient

Repo cclient is a server-side chromium setup.

Using headless mode, we serve a browser session over HTTPS, so clients can send key events and receive rendered bitmaps and not need to run arbitrary insecure Javascript code.

Steps to build chromium with headless:

1. git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
2. export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)/depot_tools
3. fetch chromium && cd src/
4. ./build/install-build-deps.sh
5. gclient runhooks
6. mkdir -p out/Debug
7. echo 'import("//build/args/headless.gn")' > out/Debug/args.gn
8. gn gen out/Debug
9. ninja -C out/Debug headless_shell

Then the shell can be started with out/Debug/headless_shell https://www.google.com.

Then navigate to http://127.0.0.1:9222 with your browser.

References

• https://github.com/elgalu/docker-selenium